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Learner Reviews & Feedback for How to Make a Comic Book (Project-Centered Course) by High Tech High Graduate School of Education

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About the Course

What you’ll achieve: In this project-centered course*, you will create an original four page minicomic designed around a short story of your choosing. What you’ll need to get started: This project-centered course is designed for all-age learners (high school age and above, at least 13 years of age) who are interested in learning how to make a comic book, but have never completed one before. While comic books can be created with any kinds of materials, we recommend that learners have the following materials available to complete the project: at least one ream of 8.5x11 copy paper, #2 pencils and eraser, Sharpie-type fine point pens, ruler with inch measurements, and adjustable binding stapler. Learners should also have access to a printer and scanner (to facilitate digitizing work to be shared with peers on Coursera). *About Project-Centered Courses: Project-Centered Courses are designed to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you’ll master the course content more efficiently; you’ll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you’ll have a finished project that you’ll be proud to use and share....

Top reviews

RV

Mar 28, 2016

I loved this course! I already had two characters that I had created. This course forced me to actually think about how I am going to implement my characters into their world.

C

Nov 15, 2021

Absolutely loved it so much fun and very well guided. Really love the course i recomend it to anyone that wants to tell a story and let creativity flow in the fomr of a comic

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By rafael l

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Apr 7, 2016

I had high expectations of this course, but must admit I'm pretty disappointed. Navigating the course feels unintuitive and clunky. Not sure if that's just a Coursera thing though. The actual content (video) looks great, but is unfortunately exceedingly brief, so much so, that it feels like this entire course could have just been a single article. In fact, there's not much presented that really benefits from the video format. Most 'instruction' in the course is centered around brief talks, or artist interviews, and thus you're often just looking at two people talking, or an artist showing you their work while they talk. You never even see anyone draw to my recollection.

The 'work' in the course feels rather 'phoned in' at times too. Questions such as "What did you find interesting about the video you just watched?" seem unnecessary, and too elementary to contain any real value, especially when the videos are so brief.

Having said all that, I DO think the people who made it are genuine, and have passion for comics, and comics education, and I'll continue to follow their efforts on that front.

By Alan E

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Sep 4, 2017

Loved the course, lots of useful information. First time I do a class like this, I haven't been reading comics for that long but I find it a very interesting medium. Maybe a second course focused on digital tools that includes coloring and more marketing would be a great addition. Thanks!

By Christopher R

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Oct 25, 2018

Love this short course how to make a comic book. Hope coursera can make more course on comics such as how to draw (basic to advance), coloring, digital or manual coloring.

By John O

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Sep 8, 2016

Great introduction to what comics are all about.

Could be even greater if the famous artists that were interviewed actually demonstrated how they went about their work.

By 胡潇予

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Aug 28, 2017

It's very interesting to make a comic book. The work flow helps me to find some problems easily and provides a lot of solutions like the books recommended. But it's a bit unfriendly for people like me who are in Chinese mainland to upload homework and evaluate for others. Hope one day it will not be a problem anymore. All in all, thanks for teachers who shared so much knowledge. I really appreciate it. Thank you who evaluated my homework. You helped me a lot!

By Matheus H

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Nov 15, 2020

I don't like the system where the teachers dont take part in the corrections

By Anisha G

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May 10, 2016

you cant do the final thing unless you pay so That minuses 2 stars.

By Erik M

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Nov 29, 2018

Boring, dry content, very little to no feedback on peer review assignments.

By Richard V

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Mar 29, 2016

I loved this course! I already had two characters that I had created. This course forced me to actually think about how I am going to implement my characters into their world.

By Doris P L J

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May 8, 2018

Learned a lot from course, and other students. Courses like this prove the merit of project-centered goals. Hoped instructors would work further with coursera.

By Caroline L

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Dec 16, 2021

This course is useful if you'd like to watch some basic videos about creating comics from real comic book artists, and also useful if you need something outside of yourself to impose deadlines for your creative projects. The peer review aspect is frustrating, however, and all but useless--you either won't get any feedback at all, or you'll get one-word (and sometimes one-character) answers from people who don't care about critiquing your work but want to get credit for doing so. This course is also a few years old (I believe) so some of the resources it offers are out of date or no longer functional, and the subreddit dedicated to the course is all but dead. Still, it's a free course, so if you're interested in some casual comic creation pointers and don't care to receive meaningful feedback from anybody, it's not a waste of your time. I rated it so low simply because the course is designed to rely so heavily on peer reviews, but getting people to finish MOOCs is like herding cats, so I don't really blame Coursera for the lack of engagement from other people taking the course.

By Tonya S

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Apr 27, 2023

Good instruction but the links are outdated or don't work and there is no one to consult.

By I'AM U

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May 28, 2021

I learned to make a comic, thanks to the coursera for helping all the students by providing a free courses. When i start to earn i will surely go on paid up courses to learn more. as I did not take paid up i missed out some but i have made a comic book and i also have shared it with my friends they all were happy for it. and 1 request please have hindi captions too, cause englsih is not my 1 language and it is diifficult to understand. Love coursera teem.

By Camber C

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Jun 15, 2020

This course was so great! as a comic book writer and drawer myself, it was good to revise some of the lessons that I have already done. Also, it was good to learn new lessons that helped me further my path as a comic book writer. I really enjoyed it! Also, the feedback from the other students was great as well.

By Lukhsar_ S

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Feb 12, 2023

It was a great experience to learn new things about this course, I enjoyed all the assignments and lecture

By Ida D D

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Feb 28, 2016

It is a great course. It reveals the possibilities of creating graphic novels/comics.

I love it.

Keli Dey

By José R M

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Oct 8, 2019

AWESOME! GREAT COURSE AND GREAT EXPERIENCE! :D

By Nikhil C

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Feb 23, 2018

This is amazing. I cant believe I made a comic book. Thank you all. You guys are amazing. Would love to work with you.

By Latif U

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Aug 28, 2020

it was a nice basic start

By Belinda N

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Dec 30, 2023

I fully enjoyed this course. Patrick did a wonderful job in explaining, directing, interviewing, etc. on how to make a comic book so I could easily understand and follow the instructions. Thank you so much for all your effort and input in compiling this course, Patrick. Keep up the good work! I am excited to start my next project with all this knowledge!

By MEHTA D R

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Aug 15, 2020

Amazing Course. Super Friendly instructors and the way the course is designed is just fantastic. It teaches the basics right from the scratch. Highly highly recommended for everyone who wants to learn comic making, especially for beginners. For me, I thoroughly enjoyed this course and passed with full marks.

By Shi Y (

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Oct 13, 2021

Love the course, the first ever comicbook creation has been done through out the weeks, very detailed step by step process. The links are especially helpful, I donot recommend to skip them, they are part of the course learning, a deeper understanding of the comic world. Can't wait to see more!

By Locinda ( L

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Apr 16, 2021

When you hear you are gonna have fun. Believe it! You are also gonna have the time of your life! The instruction are AWESOME and the information is something you can carry with you all your life. If there was an award for the best course ever made THIS ONE WOULD BE IT!!!!!!!

By Eva Z

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Apr 12, 2022

The teacher is very positive. The course is interesting and easy. It will help you focus on the goal and make the first comic. But this is more of an introductory course, you will have to learn a lot more.

By Chiara C Z M

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Nov 16, 2021

Absolutely loved it so much fun and very well guided. Really love the course i recomend it to anyone that wants to tell a story and let creativity flow in the fomr of a comic